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Birthdays. Princess Elizabeth, heiress presumptive to the throne of Great Britain, quietly, her 15th. Commander in Chief Adolf Hitler, with his armies in the Balkans, his 52nd (see p. 22). Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, in whose honor 1,000 new schoolhouses were opened, his 58th. Maestro Leopold Stokowski, promising to leave Army bands for his Philadelphia orchestra "after the present national crisis is past," his 59th. Actress May Robson, a guest at a special screening of her 60th picture (Million Dollar Baby), her 76th...
Jesse Ehlich '46 of Winthrop House and New York City has received notice from the All-American Youth Orchestra that he has been selected from 3,000 competing artists to play the cello under baton of Leopold Stokowski this summer...
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Oboist Marcel Tabuteau, Clarinetist Bernard Portnoy, Bassoonist Sol Schoenbach, Hornist Mason Jones; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). A sweet, 18th-Century woodwind "bash" (jam session), spotlighting the pure purlings and tootlings of Philadelphia's high-priced soloists...
Last fortnight Maestro Stokowski had done some criticizing himself. In firm, rayon tones he announced his resignation as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Said he, with reference to his critics: "I have always tried to give Philadelphia beauty through music because I believe in beauty and truth. If the atmosphere surrounding my conducting is to be untruth and ugliness, I cannot give of my best." It appeared that next season, for the first time in 29 years, Stokowski really would not wave pale hands over the orchestra which he had made one of the two or three plushiest-sounding...
...recent years, Stokowski has been Philadelphia's conductor more in name than in fact. While he gadded, the orchestra's responsibilities fell upon the dependable shoulders of Hungarian-born Eugene Ormandy. Now Ormandy has a five-year contract as full conductor. One cause of the final break between Stokowski and the orchestra's directors: competition between the Maestro's Columbia recordings with his All American Youth Orchestra and his Victor recordings with the Philadelphians (on which Stokowski and the orchestra association share royalties). Stokowski said simply that he would be busy with a new youth orchestra...